Hmm. I'm curious to see how much cosmetics helps these storylines. And pacing- if they can get the pacing worked out that would go a long, long way. No more one episode trips to Ireland, stop the Reilly-like cycles (the Sami-EJ-Lucas rescuing/injury thing has to stop). I'd kind of rather Scott focus on that than the content and balance, actually. I can tolerate a lot of one person if they're doing more than one thing, I think.

That's also interesting the mention of Beijing. How the heck can Days survive that? Especially when NBC doesn't really promote the show all that much. I'm not interested in the Olympics at all (not patriotic enough, don't so much care which anorexic teenager does the best flips on a beam...), but that's going to be a long break. They'll need a helluva cliffhanger to even have a chance.